ZDT LATE SHIFT PIG EARRINGS, AMNIENCE, DOA GOT AN RO FOR FILMING MINORS [ZeroDarkTony] / October 17, 2026 / YouTube / CjgtzTQo-HY
Anthony R. D’Amato, Jr., also known as ZeroDarkTony, delivered extended hostile commentary directed at Scott Hochstetter, known online as DOA, who streams on YouTube at @thelordofthegadflies, during an October 17, 2026, YouTube livestream. D’Amato speculated about Hochstetter’s anticipated incarceration, predicted that Hochstetter would be beaten in jail, and repeated his unverified claim that Hochstetter got a restraining order “for filming minors.” He made no direct threat.
“There’s Nothing I Could Say That Will Stop Him from Getting the Absolute Shit Beaten Out of Him”
Over the course of the broadcast, D’Amato framed Hochstetter’s incarceration as all but certain and described anticipated jail violence against him as something beyond anyone’s control. D’Amato stated on stream that Hochstetter “ain’t gonna remember anything I said about trying to be nice, be helpful,” positioning prior overtures as having been forfeited. He then expressed that “nothing I could say” would prevent Hochstetter from being beaten, and characterized that outcome as something Hochstetter would have “nightmares about.”
D’Amato also claimed on stream that Hochstetter obtained a restraining order for filming minors, stating, “if i need to remind anybody DOA got an RO for filming minors. It’s a fact.” On an Oct. 11 stream he conceded he had seen only “a piece of a clip that didn’t have any audio on it,” and on Oct. 4 he said “I don’t really know” whether it was true.
On his previous stream, in the early hours of the same day, D’Amato said the “taking pictures thing” was one “which i’m going to back off of,” that “we’re not going to be putting that in the title anymore,” and that “there wasn’t very much juice in that lemon.” This stream’s title put it back.
Later, D’Amato predicted Hochstetter would take a plea deal “at the very last minute,” calling that “just my opinion,” and said that if Hochstetter ran “before his bond is exonerated,” a bail bondsman would find him, adding, “You can’t hide in Mexico.” He offered no basis for the idea that Hochstetter plans to flee.
In the second half of the stream he turned to a politician he called “the Elon Omar lady” and a “Minnesota fraud thing.” His remarks about a sister in “a heap of hot water,” immigration paperwork, asylum and “13 subpoenas for the family” concerned that politician’s family, as the chat discussion at the time makes clear.
Exhibit A
D’Amato says he doubts Hochstetter “would get a whole seven years if he loses” but hopes he serves “every fucking day of it,” then frames the anticipated jail violence as outside his control: “he ain’t gonna remember anything i said about trying to be nice be helpful and all that” … “there’s nothing i could say that will stop him from getting the absolute shit beaten out of him and i’m sure that he has nightmares about it.” The clip ends with “if i need to remind anybody DOA got an RO for filming minors. It’s a fact.”
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The clip shows D’Amato expressing a personal desire for the maximum sentence while attributing the prospect of physical harm to forces he claims he cannot stop, not to any action he is directing. The statement is not a direct threat, but it continues a pattern of framing violence against Hochstetter as a foreseeable and, in D’Amato’s characterization, deserved outcome.
Hochstetter has not been convicted of anything. In People v. Hochstetter (25CJCF01106-01), he faces one count of assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury and five counts of criminal threats, all dated Feb. 16, 2024. He has pleaded not guilty, and the charges are allegations.
Five hate-crime vandalism counts were dismissed at the preliminary hearing on Aug. 8, 2025. His next court date is a pretrial conference on Dec. 1, 2026. D’Amato gave no source for the seven-year figure.
Taken together, the recorded statements document a pattern of hostile speculation about Hochstetter’s legal fate and physical safety in custody, along with a repeated, unsupported claim about a restraining order, all made to a live YouTube audience on October 17, 2026.
Sources
- Original YouTube Video
- Full SRT Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
- Full Text Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
- Full Chat Transcript: for HNZ Supporters
- Date: 2026-10-17
- Stream ID: YOUTUBE · CjgtzTQo-HY
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